Symptoms of brain and spinal cord tumours

The signs or symptoms of brain and spinal cord tumours may vary depending on the location of the tumour and are the same for non-cancerous and cancerous tumours. Signs and symptoms appear when the tumour is large enough to affect brain or spinal cord function. Other health conditions can cause the same symptoms as brain and spinal cord tumours.

The signs or symptoms of brain tumours include:

headache that may be worse in the morning or that gets worse with activity